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The barn in the Meadow

September 13, 2007 by Tricia

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Don’t you love old barns?

I took this photo last year when we were driving from Ottawa back to Toronto. We’d been on a visit to Ottawa to attend a birthday party for one of my aunts and as we drove home we just had to stop and take a few photos of the lovely scenery along the way.

I’m from Ottawa and now that my parents are gone we don’t get out that way very often anymore. One of my brothers still lives there, but he seems to come here more than we go there.





Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Vacation and Travel, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: aunt, Barn, Birthday, brother, Canada, driving, farm, home, July, last summer, meadow, old barn, Ontario, Ottawa, photo, photograph, picture, road trip, Summer, Toronto, travel, visit

Camping? Keep your batteries charged with Brunton’s Solarroll

September 13, 2007 by Tricia

I’m sure you realize by now that I love the great outdoors. I certainly talk about gardening, my love of canoeing and the various road trips that we go on often enough. I don’t however talk much about camping.

This is mainly because I haven’t actually been camping for a number of years. My husband is not really the camping type. He wouldn’t mind roughing it in a tent or trailer on the outside of town, but the idea of a trip deep into the woods isn’t his thing. I’ll get him camping at some point though or I’ll go with some friends as I miss the experience a great deal.

I do know that some of you that read this blog are avid outdoors men and women. Camping, hiking and so on, on your vacations and during the weekends.

Whether you are an adventurer who enjoys camping in the wilderness for two to four weeks at a time like our friend who goes to Labrador every year, or a weekend camper, I’ll bet that you find it hard to give up all of life’s modern conveniences while in the wilderness.

When you go camping or hiking do you bring a camera, video camera, radio, ipod or another type of multimedia player along with you? I actually know of one camper who brings a small television with her when she goes off on a trip with her luxury trailer! Perhaps you carry your cellphone or a satellite phone when you go camping just in case something happens?

Have the batteries ever run dry on any of these items when you’ve been camping? Perhaps leaving you in a dangerous position due to your sudden lack of ability to contact others? Maybe the vehicle you drove to your camping site battery died leaving you unable to start your car or truck?

If any of these things have happened to you in the past, or you don’t like the idea of them happening on future camping excursions, you should consider purchasing the Brunton Solarroll 9. It’s a flexible solar module that will allow you to run or keep the batteries charged for many of the items that I’ve mentioned above.

bruntonsolarroll.gif The Brunton Solarroll 9 is a 9 watt solar module that only weighs 10.6 ounces. When you consider how heavy batteries are, especially if you would need to bring several with you to keep various electrical items running, 10.6 ounces sounds pretty good doesn’t it? Especially if you’re backpacking! The 12″ by 40″ module rolls up and can easily be stored with your camping equipment in it’s convenient storage tube.

The solar module is waterproof, UV transparent and is extremely durable as it’s made with Tefzel Fluoropolymer. Not only has the Brunton Solarroll been made to withstand harsh conditions, but it’s composed of amorphous solar cells which are effective in low light conditions. Perfect if it ends up raining or if it’s very cloudy during your camping trip.

The solarroll includes a vehicle outlet cable and a multi-linking cable which can be used to link multiple units together for even greater output. It even has reverse flow protection.

The max output for a single unit is 9 watts (15.4 volts) making it ideal for either charging digital and video cameras or cell phone batteries or running them directly via the solar module.

This is actually Brunton’s most popular product, and as a result of it’s popularity and remarkable performance Brunton will be expanding their line of flexible solar modules this year to include alternative sizes and outputs.

Did you know that Ed Viesturs will be using the Brunton Solarroll 9 when he attempts to complete his Endeavor 8000 on his final summit, Annapurna next Spring? You certainly can’t get a better endorsement of a product than that! If this experienced mountaineer is assured of the Solarroll’s reliability then it must be a good product.

I know that the next time I’m going camping I’ll most likely have one or two of my digital cameras with me, our HD video camera, a cell phone, flashlights and some form of multimedia player. It would certainly be handy to have a solar charger with me. Heck, if I had a Brunton Solarroll I’d even take it out with me whenever I went on my photo expeditions and on road trips.

If you want to learn more about Bruntons Solarroll 9 or shop for great deals on Camping Equipment visit the FunDeals4U.com website. They have a great selection of tools, boating, electronics and outdoor products to chose from and they are all well priced.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Recreation, Shopping, Supplies, Vacation and Travel, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: 10 oz, 9 watt, amorphous solar cells, backpacking, batteries, battery, boating, Brunton Solarroll 9, camera, camping, camping equiptment, canoing, car battery, cell phone, cellphone, charge, deals, Digital, digital camera, durable, electronics, flexible solar module, friends, fundeals4u.com, greater output, harsh conditions, hiking, husband, ipod, kayaking, life, link multiple units, low light, mountaineer, multi linking cable, multimedia player, outdoor adventure, outdoors, performance, photo, Products, recharge, reliable, reverse flow protection, rock climbing, rolls up, satellite phone, solar charger, solar module, solar panel, tent, tools, trailer, tube storage, uv transparent, vacation, vehicle outlet cable, Video, waterproof, weekend, weekend camping

Bumble Bee feeding station

August 18, 2007 by Tricia

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I took this photo last year when I noticed that there were lots of bumble bees visiting some sedum flowers that had just started to bloom.

I swear the plant must have had twenty bumble bees visiting at once. It was like a bumble bee flea market or something.

I’m actually allergic to bees, but I’m not really afraid of bumble bees.

They are very gentle creatures and are very unlikely to bother you unless you lean on one or sit one one. Wasps and hornets on the other hand … don’t make them mad!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: bee, bees, bloom, Bumble bee, creature, feeding, flower, flowers, Food, photo, photohunt, photos, plant, sedum, sedum flowers, visiting

What a beautiful photo

August 10, 2007 by Tricia

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I love this photo!

To me it seems like the mother and baby elephant are laughing together as the sun sets.

I’m envious of my brothers. One lived in Africa for a few years, and another recently went there for a holiday. The holiday brother has also been to India recently and both of my brothers have likely seen sites like this one – or at least these animals in the wild.

One day I’d like to see a sight like this with my own eyes. How glorious that would be.

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Pets and animals, Photography, Recreation, Vacation and Travel, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: Africa, animals, baby, brother, elephant, holiday, hot, India, mother, photographs, photos, recently, sight, wild, wild animals

I need more time

July 26, 2007 by Tricia

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I keep looking outside at my garden each day. I want to take the time to go out and take photos but I can never seem to find the time to actually do it. I mean – when I go on a photo session, I go on a photo session. I often take over 100 photos!

Naturally if I take 100+ photos I have to process them on my computer and that takes more time.

I don’t have any spare time, so I don’t go in my garden. I just look out the window at it … thinking I should get out there with my camera.

The photos are worth it when I find the time. I just need more time!

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Wildlife and Nature Tagged With: camera, computer, digital camera, extra hours, garden, gaze out the window, hosta, more time, need time, photo, Photography, photos, plants, time, window

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